Andrews government unveils plan for 20-bed Collingwood facility as public drunkenness is decriminalised
The revised approach would see specially trained staff work alongside local health and social support services to ensure those using the sobering centre had access to support for other issues including drugs, family violence and homelessness, Williams said.People could have outreach teams take them to the centre, or otherwise walk in themselves.
The Victorian government committed to decriminalising public drunkenness at the start of a 2019 coronial inquestDay was arrested for being drunk in a public place in December 2017 and later died after she hit her head on a wall in a concrete cell at Castlemaine police station.Williams said additional outreach and sobering services for Aboriginal people would be rolled out in response to a recommendation by the coronial inquest.
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